Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...artist himself is a brisk, cheery little fellow of 57 bearing an amazing resemblance to the dwarf named Doc in Walt Disney's Snow White. Like Doc, he is white-haired, baldpated, plump, restless and has a stammer. His sad brown eyes are partly hidden behind horn-rimmed spectacles. He laughs a lot. His art, of course, seems as out of this world as any hobgoblin...
Around the White House. Massachusetts' sad-faced Republican Senator Leverett Saltonstall is held in high regard. Said one presidential aide recently: "No one wants to see Salty get into any trouble. He's too valuable." But Saltonstall is in real trouble in his bid for re-election this year. He is opposed by Democratic State Treasurer Foster Furcolo, an aggressive, proven vote-getter. Clearly, Salty needs help. One day last week the White House...
...mountain hideouts. The Red Chinese wanted a period of peace to consolidate their restive home front, and they were deeply apprehensive that the U.S. might intervene. The existence of these fears, even after the U.S. had plainly shown no enthusiasm to get involved in Indo-China, was a sad reminder that the whole of Indo-China might have been saved if the free world had long ago plainly showed its determination to save...
Mendès was crisp and matter of fact, like a company president notifying stockholders of a sad liquidation of property. "Within a few days," he began, "blood will cease to flow, and we will no longer see our youth decimated over there. This is the end of a nightmare...
From Tibet came word that the Dalai Lama, 19, whose country was grabbed by China's Communists in 1951, had departed his capital city of Lhasa to journey a long, sad way to Peking, where his secular masters will presumably try to enlighten the priest-king about the joys of cooperation with their regime. His brainwashing is expected to require from six to ten months...